In 1848, the 40-year-old Amalie von Krüdener gave birth to a child out-of-wedlock on 17 March. The father of her newborn son Nikolo was the 29-year-old Count
Nikolay Adlerberg, member of the noble
Adlerberg family. The child received the status of the adoptive son of
Nikolai Veniavsky. Baron von Krüdener was appointed Ambassador and Plenipotentiary Minister at the Court of the
King of Sweden and Norway, but Amalie pretended to be ill and stayed in Saint Petersburg. They never met again, as Baron von Krüdener died of infarction in
Stockholm in 1852. Amalie finally found love, peace and happiness with Count Nikolay Adlerberg, whom she married officially in 1855.
Orphanage in Simferopol During the
Crimean War, Nikolay Adlerberg served as Governor-General of
Simferopol and
Taurida Governorate in 1854–56. The war actions aggravated the situation of children in
Crimea as many lost their parents and had no relatives or anywhere to go. The children were brought to Simferopol during the
Siege of Sevastopol (1854) along with wounded soldiers. Simferopol's city council had been trying to open an orphan-asylum since 1848, but there were always some problems due to lack of money or necessary documents. Taking into consideration the circumstances, Countess Adlerberg decided to avoid bureaucratic formalities and on 31 December 1854 opened an asylum for fourteen orphans with her own money. In 1857, the Committee of the Board of Guardians of Orphan-asylums () approved the transformation of the temporary orphan-asylum founded by Countess Adlerberg into the asylum working on regular basis. It was also named after Amalie Adlerberg. In 1869, the Amalie Adlerberg Orphan-asylum moved into a new building. In a letter to Governor of Simferopol
Grigory Zhukovsky, Empress
Maria Alexandrovna insisted that the asylum retain the name of its founder, in contrast to other asylums across Russia, that were all named after Maria Alexandrovna. The building of the asylum is still there at the crossing of Pushkinskaya and Gogolevskaya streets and it now houses the Museum of Ethnography of Crimean Nations.
Years in Helsinki In 1866–81 Amalie lived in
Helsinki, during Nikolay Adlerberg's service as
Governor-General of Finland. As a Catholic, Countess Adlerberg helped to establish the
Roman Catholic parish and
their cathedral in Helsinki, a project earlier decisively contributed by countess Leopoldina von Berg,
née di Cicogna di Mozzone, the Italian wife of previous governor-general, field marshal
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg. Another grandson was
Gaston de Fontenilliat. In 1873, the countess managed to arrange her granddaughter (Helene de
Fontenilliat, born 1855) to marry
Constantin Linder, the wealthy lord of
Kytäjä, who had recently lost his first wife, countess Marie
Musin-Pushkin. Helene gained a stepson, the later-notorious wastrel
Hjalmar Linder of
Mustio, and soon gave birth to her own child.
Last years in Munich In 1881, after the assassination of
Alexander II of Russia, Count and Countess Adlerberg moved for permanent residence to
Munich, Germany. They had no house and first stayed at
Maximilian Lerchenfeld's house on Amalienstrasse 93. Later, the Adlerbergs acquired a plot of land and built a home in the town of
Tegernsee on Schwaighofstrasse 2. Amalie died in Tegernsee on 21 June 1888. She was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. Laurentius in
Rottach-Egern am
Tegernsee. The church is situated on the shore of the lake opposite the Amalie's mansion known under the name of "
Haus Adlerberg am See". ==References==